January 29, 2026

Gladly adds 6 AI features that take customer experience AI further

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Gladly has always delivered fast, accurate, and personalized resolutions, while other AI tools prioritize speed over experience, offering quick replies but falling short of real resolution, brand-aligned communication, or intelligent handoffs.

But the problem isn't the AI itself. It's AI designed only for deflection. Most solutions optimize for one dimension, pushing customers away as quickly as possible, and leave long-term value on the table.

Now, with six new capabilities at Gladly, you won’t have to compromise. These features bring our customer experience AI to more channels, teams, and moments in the customer journey. Each one delivers operational efficiency and the personalized experiences that build lasting customer value. This technology is not just an upgrade; it's a whole new level of what CX can accomplish.

Voice AI

When customers pick up the phone, their issue is urgent. Yet instead of quick resolutions, they often face long wait times and frustration. For businesses, these wait times make sense. Voice support can be costly and inefficient. But when brands turn to AI for help, they often end up with robotic, disjointed systems that lack customer context.

Key benefits of Voice AI

  • Customer-centric, context-rich conversations that span a lifetime

  • Generative AI for natural, human-like dialogue

  • Future-proof and modular for long-term scalability

  • Effortless setup that lets you train once and deploy anywhere

  • Seamless cross-channel follow-up via SMS

  • Smart handoff to agents with full context

Voice AI changes that. It engages callers instantly, eliminating wait times and ensuring customers feel heard from the moment they reach out. Unlike traditional AI solutions that feel robotic or disconnected, Gladly uses generative AI to create natural, intuitive conversations. With deep customer context and knowledge of brand guidelines and past interactions, it answers questions and takes action in real time, all without human intervention.

When a human touch is necessary, Gladly seamlessly hands off the conversation to team members with full context and recommended next steps.

Gladly pro tip.

Don’t fall for gimmicks selling you on deflection. The point is not to deflect your customer’s questions. It’s to get them help when they need it, especially when it comes to connecting with a team member.

Customers never repeat themselves, and team members can focus on resolution instead of gathering information. That's efficiency that strengthens relationships rather than eroding them.

Shopping assistant

By resolving common support queries and offering personalized recommendations, it ensures fewer abandoned carts and more completed purchases.

"[Gladly] allows our agents to focus on more complex, nuanced conversations or those that have more selling opportunities such as fit, sizing, and style and really connect with customers."

Lauren Inman-Semerau

VP of Customer Experience, PACT

When a human touch is required, Gladly smoothly hands conversations to team members with full context, so they can focus on high-priority issues like assisting VIP customers or resolving complex cases.

The result? A radically personal shopping experience that mirrors expert in-store guidance while driving increased revenue and loyalty.

Key benefits of AI shopping assistant

  • Real-time, personalized answers to purchase-blocking questions

  • Product recommendations based on browsing behavior and customer needs

  • Upselling and cross-selling to grow basket size and revenue

  • Reduces repetitive sales tickets, freeing up team time

  • Seamless handoff to team members with full context

  • Tracks revenue from AI-assisted conversations for clear ROI measurement

  • Continuously improves based on real-time interactions and feedback

Email

Email remains one of the most challenging support channels. Customers needing help face days-long wait times, while support teams spend valuable time combing through lengthy conversations to understand context and craft thoughtful replies, all while the email queue continues to grow.

Gladly email transforms this experience by bringing AI-powered resolutions to email. It crafts personalized replies and, most importantly, takes action on behalf of a customer. It's not just responding with information, it's resolving issues, escalating when needed, and clearing out backlogs.

"We implemented Gladly to handle initial responses, and if an issue requires more attention, it transitions seamlessly to an agent. Our customers don't even realize they're interacting with AI—it's that natural."

Nancy Orgill

Customer Support Manager, KÜHL

This increases capacity and efficiency across your team, while delivering personalized experiences to customers. Team members can focus on higher-impact conversations, and when they step in, they're equipped with clear conversation summaries, without having to sift through every message. Customers benefit from faster responses and support that feels thoughtful and personal, even over email.

Key benefits of Email

  • Smarter, faster, more scalable approach to email support

  • Full conversation history accessible across the Gladly platform

  • Personalized replies and actions on customers' behalf

  • Reduced pressure on agent workload and time

  • Faster clearing of CX email backlogs

  • Higher CSAT leading to happier customers

Guides and Journeys

Complex AI implementations often create frustrating bottlenecks and suboptimal customer experiences. Most businesses struggle with AI that requires deep technical expertise, leading to wasted investments and delayed results.

Guides and Journeys transform how businesses build and evolve AI by making setup and optimization intuitive, fast, and accessible to everyone, not just technical experts. Instead of relying on complex programming, CX teams use natural language to train AI as easily as they would train a new team member.

With Guides, teams design workflows by outlining how it should respond, retrieve information, take action, and escalate. It feels less like configuring software and more like onboarding a teammate using familiar support documentation and processes.

Once Gladly is live, Journeys provides full performance visibility through intuitive dashboards that highlight what's working and where improvements are needed, based on real customer conversations. CX teams can prioritize improvements without specialized analytics expertise.

This creates a seamless cycle of training, monitoring, and optimization. As Journeys surfaces insights, teams can instantly update Guides to keep Gladly aligned with evolving customer needs, no waiting on IT or engineering.

Gladly pro tip.

A true customer experience AI partner is built to serve you, and not just your technical teams. Gladly doesn’t just put the customer at the center; it values the team caring for your customer equally.

Key benefits of Guides and Journeys

  • Intuitive and accessible setup for non-IT teams

  • Natural-language AI training

  • Dashboard view for successes and opportunities

  • Builds a cycle of continuous CX optimization

Gladly for helpdesks

Many brands want better AI, but are locked into existing systems. Gladly for helpdesks solves this by helping your existing CRM, order management systems, and other critical tools handle more conversations with less strain.

It delivers end-to-end resolutions so teams can focus on high-impact conversations, while also helping customers with purchases through product information and recommendations, driving deeper engagement and revenue.

You can integrate this fully standalone Gladly intelligence with your existing knowledge base. Gladly for helpdesks accesses your brand's information to provide instant, accurate responses to customer questions.

It's easy to train on your specific brand policies, tone of voice, and escalation procedures. No code required, just share simple, step-by-step Guides with Gladly. You can thoroughly test everything in a controlled environment before deploying to ensure it aligns with your guidelines and performance expectations.

Key benefits of Gladly for helpdesks

  • Deep customer understanding with single, lifelong view of interactions

  • Conversational customer experience across all touchpoints

  • Seamless integration with your existing systems

  • Operates within your unique brand voice, guidelines, and policies

  • Smart handoffs to team members with full context

Staying ahead of what the market demands

"We're able to solve customer issues through Gladly... It's been fantastic. Customers are very happy with the solutions."

Jim Rodden

Chief People Officer, MaryRuth's

These six new capabilities aren't just responses to market trends. They're setting them. While others play catch-up with deflection-focused AI, we're defining what an intelligent customer experience actually looks like.

This reflects what we hear from CX leaders and frontline teams. They want AI that works with their people, not around them. Tools that drive real outcomes on revenue, resolution time, and relationships. They're tired of being told to choose between cost savings and customer experience.

With these capabilities, you don't have to choose. You get the efficiency your CFO needs and the customer devotion that drives lasting business value. That's the difference between AI that deflects and AI purpose-built to engage.

Ready to see how Gladly can transform your customer experience?

Revolutionize your CX with Gladly

Maya Williams

Maya Williams

Manager, Inbound Marketing

Maya Williams is a data-driven marketing strategist specializing in digital and inbound growth. At Gladly, she writes about how AI and analytics can transform CX teams into revenue-driving marketing engines. With deep experience in digital strategy and customer engagement, Maya brings a marketer’s perspective to how brands can use data and technology to create more impactful customer experiences.

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